Nick Fury/YMMV
- Adaptation Displacement - Younger Marvel fans, particularly those introduced to the major characters through the modern films, may be shocked when they find out that not only is Samuel L. Jackson's portrayal based on an Ultimate/"alternate" Nick Fury, the original Nick Fury is white.
- The Superhero Squad Show also features an Ultimate-inspired Nick Fury.
- As The Randomverse pointed out:
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616!Nick Fury: "I bust my hump in comics for 40 years, and he[1] gets the movie! |
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- Base Breaker: Ultimate Fury is either a badass, awesome leader guy, or a manipulative jerkass who only cares about himself. Depending on the Writer, both is true.
- Marcus!Fury, 616!Fury's son who's an expy of Ultimate Fury, has been getting heat from portion of the fanbase for being 'a cheap way to cash in on the film' or praised for being 'a great way to bring Fury back to his roots'. The fact that he's all but replacing the original Fury hasn't helped matters.[2] Some people are hoping its a Dork Age and will be ignored later, some are hoping that, if it is a Dork Age, that Marcus!Fury will stick around afterwards.
- Growing the Beard: Inverted in that it is when Jim Steranko had Nick Fury shave his scraggly beard off that became the sign that the comic was taking its own innovative path.
- Harsher in Hindsight - A driving force of Fury's actions in the MAX miniseries are the fact that he has run out of wars to fight and must scrounge for armed conflict (like being loaned out to the DEA to bring down drug manufacturers). He is desperate to have some sort of battle to fight to escape from his crummy domestic life. The first issue came out in November 2001 but it was clearly written before 9/11. Within a few months Fury would have his war.
- Memetic Badass - One splash page of a shirtless Nick Fury crashing his rocket-powered bike through a wall while firing his Guns Akimbo is regarded as one of the most awesome things ever.